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CONCLUSIONS: Weight loss combined with a healthy lifestyle was shown to be very beneficial for patients with moderate to severe disease with a significant reduction of the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) score. Currently, oral vitamin D supplementation for prevention or treatment of psoriasis in adults with normal vitamin D levels is not recommended; however, psoriasis patients with a deficit in plasma vitamin D levels are advised to complement with oral supplements to prevent psoriasis-related comorbidities. Instead of zinc, selenium, and omega 3 supplements have been proven beneficial for psoriasis patients. Amo...

CONCLUSIONS: The present study highlights the predictive and prognostic potential role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in assisting physicians on personalized decision in the selective risk-adapted treatment strategy, and to schedule the correct follow-up approach.
PMID: 30556862 [PubMed - in process]

In this study, food-grade whey protein isolate (WPI) nanofibers were fabricated in combination with guar gum (GG) using the electrospinning method for the first time. The mixture solution of WPI and GG in acidic condition showed spinnability in the concentration range of (WPI: 7–12 and GG: 0.7–0.9 % wt) at 20 kV voltage, 8 cm capillary collector distance and 0.6 ml/min flow rate. The visible transformation in the morphological appearance from nanofibers containing beads to beads free nanofibers was seen when the GG concentration increased from 0.8 to 0.9 % wt at a fixed concentration of WPI (7% wt). Based...

Publication date: Available online 17 December 2018Source: Food HydrocolloidsAuthor(s): Miguel Ribeiro, Stefania Picascia, Larbi Rhazi, Carmen Gianfrani, Jose Maria Carrillo, Marta Rodriguez-Quijano, Gérard Branlard, Fernando M. NunesAbstractA new technology for reducing wheat flour toxicity for celiac disease patients through the in situ formation of gluten-chitosan interlocked self-assembled supramolecular architecture was developed. To have a deeper insight into the microstructure of this new molecular organization and its impact on the dough properties, its small and large deformation rheological properties were...

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Cystic lung diseases are a group of disorders that appear similar on radiological studies on chest computed tomography. Each disorder is characterized by its own etiology, pathophysiology, course of progression and manifestation. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is one of the cystic lung diseases that can either be hereditary or sporadic. The sporadic form is a rare disease with no accurate prevalence reported but is believed to be less than 10 per million. LAM is associated with inappropriate activation of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling which regulates cellular growth. The sporadic form is ...

Publication date: Available online 18 December 2018Source: Journal of Molecular StructureAuthor(s): Lidiya A. Koroleva, Alexander V. Abramenkov, Sergey V. Krasnoshchekov, Alexandra V. Korolyova, Anastasia V. BochenkovaAbstractThe potential functions of internal rotation V(φ) (PFIR) of methacryloyl fluoride (MAF) in the ground (S0) and excited (S1) electronic states were reconstructed using the TORSIO program from experimental energy levels of the torsional transitions in the s-trans- and s-cis isomers. The energy levels were obtained from the analysis of the vibrational structure in the high-resolution gas-phase UV spe...

This study may provide some significant references for large scale photocatalytic hydrogen evolution utilizing solar energy.Graphical abstractThe Y2SiO5:Pr3+,Li, as an up-conversion luminescence agent from visible-light to ultraviolet-light, is synthesized, and then a series of Y2SiO5:Pr3+,Li/NaNbxTa1−xO3 nanoparticles are prepared. The activities of Y2SiO5:Pr3+,Li/Pt-NaNbxTa1−xO3 (x = 0.00, 0.25 and 0.50) are investigated through photocatalytic hydrogen evolution in 10 vol% methanol solution under visible-light irradiation. The influences of Nb content in NaNbxTa1−xO3, mass ratio of Y2SiO5:Pr3+,Li ...